Comment 122 for bug 1142213

Seems rather serious to me. Currently there are at least three packages in the ubuntu repos (oxygen-gtk for gtk2 and gtk3 and qtcurve) that - once installed - may make many gtk applications stop working, in such a way that they silently hang.

A troublesome aspect is thatI would like to report that after upgrading to raring, some kde systems come out without the module that enables the configuration of the gtk themes in the kde systems settings (the deb is not installed). This means that working around the issue by inviting kde users to configure gtk not to use the oxygen or the qtcurve theme may be tricky. Here the workaround involves root permissions to force the uninstall of oxygen-gtk, qtcurve or the install of the kde system settings module, or alternatively inviting users to hand edit the gtkrc file.